On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 08:42 AM, Bondtrails wrote:
Hi everyone,Some info of perhaps interest. As far as I can tell only two companies make ATA cards for the Mac . Promise and Acard. The Acards are the ones with no 8gb limit on installing OSX. The drives hooked to it are seen as SCSI drives which is how the 8gb limit on old world machines is avoided. Promise cards see the drives as ide which is what they are of course but then we get the 8gb limit on Beige G3 and older machines.
I can get a good deal on a SIIG ATA/133 PCI controller card. Does anyone have any words of wisdom about this card?
I've been told to look for a few things when buying an ATA IDE controller card:
-Make sure you can boot from it
-Make sure it doesn't have the <8Gig problem (where the drive must be partitioned for OS X to work)
-Make sure it works with OSX
I have a Umax S900 souped up with a NewerTech 333Mhz G3 card (it currenly runs Jaguar OS X 10.2.6 Server nicely) and I really want to move away from low storage, expensive SCSI drives.
Thanks for the all the advice!
--Bondster!!
The Acard 133mhz, Miglia(mostly sold in UK & Germany), &SIIG are all the same Acard product. SIIG has the advantage of of the longest warranty (5 years) and often best price.
The Sonnet Tempo 100&133 mhz & 133 Trio cards are the Promise cards.
Just to confuse things a bit the Sonnet tempo 66(no longer sold new) and 133 raid version cards are Acards.
The Promise cards may work with more ide CDRW & DVDR drives then the Acards . However the Acards do work with many CDRW & DVDR drives.
I think you will be happy with the SGII card. later Will S
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